Provide routine, personal healthcare, such as bathing,
dressing, or grooming, to elderly, convalescent, or disabled persons in the
home of patients or in a residential care facility.

Following are examples of the tasks required for a cashier position.
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Tasks

Administer prescribed oral
medications under written direction of physician or as directed by
home care nurse and aide.

Change dressings.

Check patients' pulse, temperature
and respiration.

Direct patients in simple prescribed
exercises and in the use of braces or artificial limbs.

Maintain records of patient care,
condition, progress, and problems in order to report and discuss
observations with a supervisor or case manager.

Massage patients and apply
preparations and treatments, such as liniment, alcohol rubs, and
heat-lamp stimulation.

Provide patients with help moving in
and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs or automobiles, and with dressing
and grooming.

Accompany clients to doctors'
offices and on other trips outside the home, providing transportation,
assistance and companionship.

Care for children who are disabled
or who have sick or disabled parents.